Study of the genetic variability in different current human groups in order to infer their history and demography: colonisation of the Mediterranean, genetic relationships between several amerindian groups (Guahibo, Aymara, Quechua), genetic origin of the Yakuts (Northern Siberia).
Genetic epidemiology
Studies of genetic variability in genes conferring susceptibility to complex illnesses. Approach to the molecular diversity of certain risk genes in different ethnic groups: polymorphism of androgen receptors in the Mediterranean area and relationship with prostate cancer. Variability of apolipoprotein genes in cardiovascular patients from Spain and Tunis. Association studies in autistic children from Tunis.
Research Projects
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación: CGL2008-03955 “Arquitectura molecular y variación de regiones funcionales y no-funcionales del genoma humano: Aplicaciones epidemiológicas y poblacionales en el Mediterráneo” from 01/01/2009 to 31/12/2011. P.I. Pedro Moral
- Universidad Europea de Madrid "Estudio de las relaciones genéticas de tres poblaciones humanas del entorno mediterráeo mediante el análisis genético del cromosoma X" from 2008 to 2009 P.I. María Gaibar Alonso
- AGAUR-Ajuts per al desenvolupament i consolidació de xarxes temàtiques de recerca en el marc de la Comunitat de Treball dels Pirineus. "Biologia de les Poblacions Humanes dels Pirineus", from 2008 to 2009. P.I. Pedro Moral
